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Chapter 1498 Strategic Deception

On the night of the 15th, An Yi held a banquet at his home by the West Lake in Xinjing to entertain Song Meiling. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Confucian sisters who accompanied Song Meiling on her visit and Chen Cheng's wife Tan Xiang also accompanied Song Meiling to attend. At this time, Lao Dao had already taken Gong Ming and He Xiaodong back to Anxin City, and the other children also returned to Syria with Ou Chuer, Ding Molan and Zhang Ruyi to resume work and study.

On the morning of 16 July, after seeing off the delegation, definite news came from the French side: Forced by the increasingly tense war atmosphere in Europe, the French Government, Parliament, and the army made a unanimous decision to adopt a "double no" policy of not recognizing or declaring war against the nascent South China regime, and to send the navy and army from the mainland to conduct conquest in accordance with the treatment of local rebellions.

However, there was a big difference of opinion between the government and the army on the question of how many troops to be sent to fight in Annam, and Defense Minister Marshal Petain advocated sending an expeditionary force of 500,000 troops, and then assembling a large number of fleets to escort them to Cochinchina in batches, and then waiting for an opportunity to land in the northern and central regions of Annam, adopting the tactics of cutting off the head, cutting off the tail, and cutting off the waist, so as to defeat the An Jiajun army in one fell swoop and solve the problem once and for all. But Prime Minister Daladier and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs George . However, the governor of Bonet refused to send only 50,000 troops on the grounds that the government was overwhelmed by the government's finances and that he needed to guard against Germany.

Just as the French government and army were preparing to send troops, millions of anti-war demonstrations broke out again across France.

The French people's fear of war far exceeded the imagination of later generations, and the First World War almost bleed France and nearly destroyed the country. Most French people almost never think about long-term interests, often sacrificing long-term interests for the sake of immediate interests. Under a representative democracy, the French fear of war has reached the level of collective cowardice, and they are simply unwilling to shed blood and sacrifice for non-native wars.

At the same time, the French semi-official "Times" published a letter from Frandan, who had served as prime minister and foreign minister and is now the leader of the centrist party "Democratic Alliance" in the parliament: "I am against sending a French ** team to the Far East!" For so many years, the French people have not received a penny of moral benefits from Annan, and all the benefits have been stolen by the monopoly capitalists, so why use the blood of the people to pay for the capitalists?

The left-wing parties were unanimously opposed to sending troops to Annan, and the Labor League issued a statement strongly protesting the government's sending of French youths to Annan to die. Two powerful guild organizations, the Public School Teachers' Union and the Postal and Telecommunications Union, denounced in the newspapers that "the war in Annam was a collective suicide" and claimed that the claim that the colony was protected for the sake of protecting French interests was a complete "lie to deceive the people."

In this case, the An Jiajun infiltrated the intelligence organization in France, and used the cover of night to post anti-war slogans on the walls of major cities: You have been deceived! French people, you have been deceived! A gang of saboteurs hiding in the government and the army...... A cunning trap is being hatched to make us bleed the last drop of blood......

After a two-day stalemate under the pressure of public opinion, and seeing that the parliament was about to make a motion opposing the dispatch of troops to Annam, the military took the lead in making a compromise and first sent 50,000 troops to relieve the crisis of Jiaozhichina and stabilize the battle front, otherwise according to the telegram of the French Governor-General of Annam asking for help every day, and the speed at which a battleship was sunk by the enemy's bombers in Kinsor's fleet in a few days, Annan's defeat would be irreparable after the people and public opinion in the country were pacified and the desired result was negotiated.

Under these circumstances, on 18 February, 38,000 French troops drawn back from the Maginot Line, plus 21,000 colonial troops from North Africa, formally formed an expeditionary force in Paris.

The expeditionary force was led by Lieutenant General Fouché, former head of the French military mission to Slovak in the Czech Republic, as commander-in-chief, and the Minister of Defense, Marshal Pétain's aide-de-camp, Lostono. Colonel Lako served as Chief of Staff. The expeditionary force has two light infantry divisions, one mechanized division, and one artillery division, and in order to strengthen the air defense capability of the troops, an air defense brigade has been specially transferred to join the force. As for the Air Force, now the whole of France combined has less than four hundred aircraft, and only more than thirty fighters can be produced per month, and the rest can only be imported from the United States. In the face of the huge number of German fighters, these fighters were not even enough to defend the homeland, let alone send them to Annam to participate in the war.

On the naval side, Admiral Darlain, Chief of Naval Staff, dispatched the naval fleet of the North African colonies to escort the troop carriers throughout the process. The North African Fleet has one dreadnought, four old cruisers, eight old destroyers, one supply ship and one maintenance ship. At the same time, in order to strengthen the air defense capability of the fleet, two cruisers and six destroyers, which have just completed the transformation of their weapons systems and strengthened their anti-aircraft firepower, have been added to the fleet. Upon arrival in Saigon, this part of the warships will be equipped with an ocean-going fleet to enhance the chips in the hands of Vice Admiral Kinsol against the superior fighters of the squadron.

After the decision was made to dispatch troops, the French Government, the Ministry of National Defense, the Army Command, and the Navy Command sent messages to the French Governor-General's Office of Annam, the French Annam Army Command, the French Admiralty of Annam, and the fleet led by Vice Admiral Kinsol, demanding that preparations be made to meet reinforcements, that military rations be prepared, and that military ports and camps be arranged. Naturally, soon these telegrams were placed on An Yi's desk.

Now, the third headquarters of Anjiajun has moved to Xinjing City, and lives in a French-style building next to Duzhu Temple in the northwest of Xinjing, the core of which is the headquarters of Crédit Agricole CIB in the Tokyo area, which consists of six connected four-story Western-style buildings, each with a basement, which is where the bank's vault is located. Of course, all the gold, silver, jewelry, jade, and foreign exchange in the treasury have been transported back to Syria, greatly enriching the small treasury of An Jiajun.

In addition to these six buildings, there are a large number of three- and two-storey French-style western-style buildings in the surrounding two-square-kilometre area, which are used as apartments for government officials and bank employees, although these have now been confiscated by the Nanhua government and become state property.

The military and political departments that moved to South China, such as the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Supervision Yuan, the Second Artillery Command, and the Engineer Corps Command, all worked in this area, which can be described as the military center of the Republic of South China.

A large number of naval officers and men who had received simple ship training on Poyang Lake were airlifted from the Xingzi Naval Base to the Haiphong Naval Base for training on warships cruising along the coastal areas of South China.

At the beginning of last month, after receiving a face-to-face promise from An Yi, Vice Admiral Kinsor swore allegiance to An Yi, and then, as the commander of the fleet, ordered all naval officers and sailors to join the An Jia Navy. In his speech, Kinsor declared that with the total destruction of the ships and the end of the mission of the ocean-going fleet, everyone should consider whether to choose to live the rest of their lives as a miserable prisoner or to continue to work in the navy with dignity and live freely with a good salary.

Kinsol assured that there was no problem with the credibility of the An Jiajun, which had been fully demonstrated by the Syrian government over the years in its treatment of Belarus and Jews, and that the leader of the An Jiajun, An Yi, promised that as long as he served in the navy for eight years, he could choose to retire and go wherever he wanted.

Kinsol's words caused deep thought among all French naval officers and sailors.

The values of Westerners and Chinese are completely different, Chinese advocate self-cultivation and family to rule the country and level the world, advocate loyalty to the monarch and serve the country, unswerving, always loyal subjects have a good name for thousands of years, traitors have been stinking for thousands of years, this kind of family and country as the core of the values, is the fundamental guarantee that Chinese civilization has been unbroken for thousands of years; Westerners, on the other hand, regard themselves as the core of society, emphasizing self-success through individual efforts and struggles, and advocate that people are absolutely free and can be responsible for everything they do, and the meaning of human existence is to realize themselves. The thinker Nietzsche even believed that in order to achieve the goal, it is possible to achieve personal goals without considering the interests of anyone or even the whole society, and in order to obtain money and power, it is possible to resort to any means, including fraud, perfidy, and even violence.

Generally speaking, Westerners do not attach so much importance to the family, to the society, to the country, in the family, emphasizing the freedom, rights and independent will of the members, diluting the responsibilities and obligations of the individual to the family, in the ownership of property, fathers, sons, brothers, husbands and wives have their own private property, and the family relationship caused by blood relations has also been replaced by legal relations. It is precisely because of the individual-oriented nature that the family structure in the West is loose, which makes people lack sufficient centripetal force and cohesion for society and the country.

Therefore, after repeatedly considering personal gains and losses, except for more than 1,000 naval officers who stated that they would never betray France, the rest of them all chose to cooperate with the Anjia Navy Navy, some of them were airlifted to the Xingzi Naval Base as instructors for newly recruited naval recruits, some entered the naval academy to undertake military teaching tasks, some joined the naval headquarters and served as operational staff officers and department chiefs, and the last part of about 4,000 people were assigned to ships to assist Chinese crews in piloting warships. Carry out work such as ocean-going formations and naval combat exercises.

In addition, among the more than 40,000 officers and men of the French Army who were captured in Hanoi, Haiphong, Cochinchina, Vinh City, Da Nang, and other places last month, all the officers who were guaranteed preferential treatment by the An Jia Army were sent to Syria to enter the Jiangbei Horse Farm, where the British generals once served, where they were almost isolated from the rest of the world, to engage in the work of grazing military horses for leisure. The French have a heartfelt fondness for war horses, and they don't feel ashamed of it.

Before joining the army, the French soldiers who were engaged in various occupations and had a good skill immediately crowded the registration points, and finally about 14,000 people were released from the sea of suffering, in addition to more than 1,000 non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level who were willing to join the An Jia Army, undertake military teaching work, and also leave the prisoner of war camps.

The remaining 20,000 or so army prisoners of war, along with naval prisoners who refused to cooperate, were escorted to various railway construction sites and became part of the road construction army. In order to avoid causing a commotion among the prisoners of war, An Jiajun made a promise that, on the basis of ensuring that the prisoners of war were well fed and clothed, they would give a certain amount of economic subsidies according to the fruits of each person's labor, which would be paid at the end of each month. If you run away while participating in labor, you will face only one result, and that is to be shot! At the end of last month, the first month's salary was distributed to all French people, and although it was only half of the salary of ordinary people, it was enough to stabilize the mood of the majority of people, and they were not so resistant to labor reform.

In any case, many francs were seized from Crédit Agricole, and the South Chinese government had long wanted to spend it as soon as possible before the French mainland was occupied by Germany, so as to avoid a serious depreciation of the money in its hands, and it did not care about spending more.

In this wave of relocation of military and political institutions, many research institutes, military academies, universities, factories and enterprises in Syria have not been relocated, after all, the current Nanhua is still a large construction site, rather than bothering to raise sites everywhere, it is better to continue to stay in Syria, and wait for the construction to be completed in the future and move in at one time.

February 18, 8 p.m., the war room of the General Staff of the Anjia Army.

"The North African fleet that arrived this time, I am familiar with it. This is a second-rate colonial fleet dominated by old warships, and the main ship of this fleet is the dreadnought of the 'Lone Pull' class, which is the same class as the 'Ocean' of our Mediterranean Fleet and the 'Paris' captured in Saigon.

"A battleship of this class, with a displacement of 26,000 tons, a length of 168 meters, a width of 28 meters, a maximum draft of 9 meters, has 12 305 mm caliber main guns, mounted on 6 twin main gun turrets, and 22 138 mm / 55 times caliber secondary guns. The layout of the main turret is very backward, with the legacy of the diamond-shaped arrangement of the guns of the French battleships at the beginning of this century, which is completely different from the trend of the main turrets arranged along the longitudinal central axis of the hull in the last European war.

"All five dreadnoughts of this class were converted between '26 and '29, with rebuilt superstructures and tripod mainmasts, new boilers and merging the two front chimneys into one, refitting the fire control system, and installing 50 20-mm triple anti-aircraft guns and 4 45-mm anti-aircraft guns. The Kolbe' had been damaged by a German submarine in the First World War, and the Admiralty had intended to convert it into a training ship this year, but now with the loss of our ocean-going fleet and the Annam fleet, it is expected to remain in service for a long time to come. ”

Admiral Kinsor, deputy commander of the An Jiajun Navy, talked eloquently, and the interpreter kept translating his words into Mandarin, so there was no big obstacle to communicating with the generals and colonels of the An Jiajun.

An Yi nodded, his eyes swept over the faces of Cheng Guang and Jin Suor, and then turned his head to ask Yang Fei, Mu Chaiyi and Huang Zhi: "What is the opinion of the General Staff?" ”

Yang Fei frowned: "There are big differences of opinion, most of them advocate eating the North African Fleet and the French Army that arrived in Hanoi in one bite, so that our Pacific Fleet will have five battleships, nine cruisers, twenty-three destroyers and a large number of gunboats at once, and become a maritime force in Asia that cannot be underestimated; There is also a small group of generals represented by Major Liu Yu, the chief of operations, who advocate letting go of the navy and eating the army. Because if the North African fleet mysteriously disappears, then the French will definitely see through our ** formation, and all the previous cover-ups will be put to waste, and Britain, the United States and Japan will immediately raise their vigilance against us and squeeze our survival and development space with all their might, and it will be difficult to fish in troubled waters in the future! ”

An Yi pondered for a long time and asked the navy again.

Lu Guang replied: "Up to now, the officers and men of our navy are not very familiar with the operation of large ships, and now they are conducting first-line exercises in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand under the banner of the French Navy.

"During this time, the fleet has crossed out half of the battleships from the sequence in a telegram to the French Admiralty, under the pretext that they were all 'sunk' by bombers, and if we continue to arrange this puzzle and hold on until the war breaks out in Europe, then all the warships can be artificially 'disappeared' under the pretext of war damage. After a long period of fighting, the battleships are lost one by one, which is much better than being captured all at once, and the impact on the soul is not so great. As long as Taoguang is obscure for two to three years, by the time we accumulate strength to attack, no one will be able to stop the great strides in the development of our navy! ”

An Yi smiled slightly: "In this way, your opinion is to only fight the army, not the navy?" ”

Cheng Guang nodded: "The French army has come ashore, as long as our bureau is well arranged, these French officers and soldiers who are unvigilant on 'their own' territory are like sparrows who have thrown themselves into the net, and it will be difficult to fly away again, and in the end, everything is not up to us?"

"As for this North African navy, we can transfer them to other ports in Cochinchina for replenishment after receiving the ships they have sent, such as the port of Meidi, which we have just planned to build, which is fully capable of this job, where the port is wide and deep enough to accommodate the North African fleet, and we only need to send a thousand Jewish officers and men to dress Meidi in the style of a town on the French coast, and then from Leonardo's The nightclub of Paris Entertainment World 'has sent a group of people to support, which can well cover everything in Cochinchina.

"Now the situation in Europe is extremely tense, as long as the personnel we send are in place, and the French will leave for two days at most, and the situation here will not be up to us? The French could never have guessed that we would go to great lengths and spend a lot of energy to set up such a big game. By the time war breaks out in Europe and the French understand that it will be too late! ”

"The main thing is that the ships of the North African Fleet are not worth our quest!"

Kinsol, who had spent many years in the French Navy and was as familiar with French and political affairs as he was with his own ten fingers, added:

"The warships of the North African Navy are very old, most of them have reached the end of their life, and the reason why they are still being used is because the treasury is empty, and there is not much money to build warships to replace them. For this reason, the navy has specially stationed technical personnel on each warship, and in the course of daily maintenance and navigation, once cracks are found in the steel plates and connecting bridges of the ship's hull, it proves that the ship has metal fatigue and must be scrapped or abandoned as soon as possible.

"Nowadays, the situation in Europe is unstable, and the South China side is managed by us as impregnable, not to mention the land and sea surface, this is the top priority of our monitoring, the navy and the army do not know how much effort has been put into this, and in the air, because of the all-weather monitoring carried out by the radar system, it is simply impossible for the enemy's fighters to have the opportunity to get close to our coastline, let alone enter the seaport to spy on our fleet. In this way, the secrecy of our warships can be maintained for a long time, which is extremely beneficial for the growth of the Navy. ”

Hearing such a detailed analysis, An Yi had basically made up his mind in his heart, but in order to respect the opinions of several deputies, he still asked: "Lao Yang, Lao Huang, reminiscence, what do you mean?" ”

"Willing, willing, giving is gaining...... Let us put ourselves in the shoes of the French government if they found out that we had not only occupied all of Annam, but also captured all the naval warships they had sent to the Far East. In my opinion, it is still a more desirable outcome to continue to send troops to conscription, and the most fearful thing is that the French government is hot-headed and declares war on us, so that according to the Covenant, the British will also have a great possibility of declaring war on us, and then the entire Commonwealth countries will be our enemies, and it is even possible to bring the United States in. At present, the Chinese in Europe and the United States will encounter the most serious existential crisis in history. Therefore, this North African fleet must return to the French mainland in peace, bring the message that Cochinchina and the ocean-going fleet are all right, and dispel the suspicions of the French. ”

Huang Zhi's words made An Yi break out in a cold sweat, and at this moment, he no longer hesitated, and immediately asked the General Staff and the Admiralty to come up with the No. 2 plan of the "Hiding from the Sky and Crossing the Sea" plan as soon as possible to see how to successfully fool the pass.

In the following three days, more than 500 staff officers of various departments of the General Staff Department, plus more than 100 generals and staff officers of the Navy Department, all threw themselves into the formulation of the plan, and did not let go of any detail.

The strategic deception of the Republic of South China is similar to the "Star Wars" program of later US President Ronald Reagan, which finally brought down the Soviet Union, and can the Republic of South China hide from the French and win the most precious time for this nascent country?